Oh, without stating the obvious, you should consider testing your cable connection, too -- at both the drive AND the motherboard.
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:40:56 +0000 Bill Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone got any theories on multiple hard drive failures, two have > gone > west in the last two weeks. > The first was of little importance as it was merely used as a > transfer > device between my wife's and my own hard drives on our PC ( we have > our > own drives (C drive) in caddies). > The failure of the PC to recognise drive D was just an annoyance, > but I > decided to do something about it and tried to format it on the PC - > no > joy, I then attempted to format it on my Q40 - still no joy the > drive is > I think dead. > As a short term measure I decided to replace it with the Win2_ drive > in > my Q40, I use Win2 on the Q40 for backups mainly, I have some but > not > all of the Q40 Win1_ backed up on floppies, so today the Q40 fired > up > and wont recognise Win1_ - oh joy of joys. > No amount of win_drive dohickeying worked so in the end I was > resigned > to format Win1 and put Christmas holidays on hold while I load in > all > the stuff from the floppies. > I now have little faith in this drive ( 2.1 meg Cavier ). > Just wondered if anyone had any ideas why this could of happened. > The Q40 shares a printer and a monitor with the PC, no switching is > required as the printer has usb for PC and par for Q40, the monitor > a > Sony has dual input, two night ago the PC ( Windows 98 ) took it > upon > itself to switch resolution from 800x600 to something lower, however > I > have used the Q40 since then without problem. I did notice though > that > an archive file with a COUNT() of 92 now has a COUNT() of 0.00289... > or > something. > oh I'm running smsqe 2.98 > All the best - Bill > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
